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Irish Boston

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Author : Michael Quinlin
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2013-10-01

Irish Boston written by Michael Quinlin and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-01 with History categories.

The fascinating story of the Irish in Boston unfolds in this engagingly written history-cum-guidebook. Full of heroism and romance, politics and brawls, it tells the stories behind the well-known history and vividly portrays what life was like for the Harrigans, Gallaghers, Kelleys, Finnegans and others who made their home in Boston over the past three centuries. From the days of "No Irish Need Apply" in the 1850s to the inauguration in 1960 of the first Irish Catholic president, the Boston Irish have molded the history of the city--and the nation--in all areas of culture and society, and their spirited tale is told in these pages. The cast of characters includes such larger-than-life personalities as *Hugh O'Brien, Boston's first Irish Catholic mayor (1885) *John Singleton Copley, America's first great portrait painter *Louis Sullivan, the father of American Architecture, born in Boston's South End in 1856, *Brendan Connolly, the first top medalist in the modern Olympic Games (1896) *John L. Sullivan, world heavyweight boxing champion *Patrick Kennedy and Bridget Murphy, progenitors of the Kennedy political dynasty Those who want to do more than just read about the saga of the Irish in Boston will also find information on dozens of Irish-related historic and cultural sites, such as the Irish Famine Memorial, the Civil War Monument, St. Augustine's Cemetery, the Irish Cultural Centre, the JFK Library, and the pub where Seamus Heaney and his buddies frequently enjoyed a pint. Also included is a directory of Irish gift shops, annual events, genealogical resources, Irish organizations, and Irish-related academic courses. This one-of-a-kind guide is a complete source for the total Irish experience, both past and present.

Hidden History Of The Boston Irish

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Author : Peter F. Stevens
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2008-03-28

Hidden History Of The Boston Irish written by Peter F. Stevens and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-03-28 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

Peter F. Stevens offers an entertaining and compelling portrait of the Irish immigrant saga and pays homage to the overlooked episodes of the Boston Irish experience. When it comes to Irish America, certain names spring to mind - Kennedy, O'Neill, and Curley testify to the proverbial "footsteps of the Gael" in Boston. However, few people know of Sister Mary Anthony O'Connell, whose medical prowess carried her from the convent to the Civil War battlefields, earning her the nickname "the Boston Irish Florence Nightingale," or of Barney McGinniskin, Boston's first Irish cop, who proudly roared at every roll call, "McGinniskin from the bogs of Ireland - present!" Along with acclaim or notoriety, many forgotten Irish Americans garnered numerous historical firsts.

A Journey Through Boston Irish History

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Author : Dennis P. Ryan
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 1999-06-01

A Journey Through Boston Irish History written by Dennis P. Ryan and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-06-01 with History categories.

A Journey through Boston Irish History, the first comprehensive photographic record of Boston's most conspicuous immigrant group, is the fruit of years of tireless research by prize-winning author Dennis P. Ryan. Within these pages are rare and handsome images unearthed from innumerable local libraries, historical societies and museums, parish rectories and Catholic charitable institutions, the archives of religious congregations, major Boston and diocesan newspapers, private family collections, and the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. Beginning with the horrifying famine of the 1840s in Ireland and concluding four generations later with the election of John F. Kennedy as president, A Journey through Boston Irish History is a sweeping, poignant portrait of the children of the Gael and the city they transformed politically, socially, and culturally. Ryan takes us through the corridors and wards of hospitals and orphanages that were established by the Irish to care for their own. Powerful images supplied by the Mathew Brady Collection at the Library of Congress recount the exploits of the celebrated Massachusetts Ninth Irish Regiment during the American Civil War. Within these pages, we are also invited to discover the vibrant personalities of pugilist John L. Sullivan, William Henry Cardinal O'Connell, as well as the irrepressible Mayor James Michael Curley.

Irish Boston

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Author : Michael P. Quinlin
language : en
Publisher: Globe Pequot
Release Date : 2004

Irish Boston written by Michael P. Quinlin and has been published by Globe Pequot this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Boston (Mass.) categories.

Little-known stories and larger-than-life characters that people the 300-plus years of Boston Irish history, complete with detailed information on places to go, drink, and shop!

The Story Of The Irish In Boston

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Author : James Bernard Cullen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1889

The Story Of The Irish In Boston written by James Bernard Cullen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1889 with Boston (Mass.) categories.

Beyond The Ballot Box

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Author : Dennis P. Ryan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989

Beyond The Ballot Box written by Dennis P. Ryan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with History categories.

In Beyond the Ballot Box, Ryan examines the social experience of the Irish in Boston between 1845 and 1917. He discusses their private and institutional responses to poverty, their education in both public and parochial schools, their difficulties in breaking into businesses and other professions, their relationships with other racial and ethnic groups, their leisure activities and their experiences as domestic workers.

See You At The Hall

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Author : Susan Gedutis
language : en
Publisher: UPNE
Release Date : 2005-07

See You At The Hall written by Susan Gedutis and has been published by UPNE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-07 with History categories.

An engaging look at Boston's golden era of Irish traditional music

Rogues And Redeemers

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Author : Gerard O'Neill
language : en
Publisher: Crown
Release Date : 2012-03-13

Rogues And Redeemers written by Gerard O'Neill and has been published by Crown this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-13 with History categories.

From the bestselling coauthor of Black Mass, a behind-the-scenes portrait of the Irish power brokers who forged and fractured twentieth-century Boston. Rogues and Redeemers tells the hidden story of Boston politics--the cold-blooded ward bosses, the smoke-filled rooms, the larger-than-life pols who became national figures: Honey Fitz, the crafty stage Irishman and grandfather to a president; the pugilistic Rascal King, Michael Curley; the hectored Kevin White who tried to hold the city together during the busing crisis; and Ray Flynn, the Southie charmer who was truly the last hurrah for Irish-American politics in the city. For almost a century, the Irish dominated Boston politics with their own unique, clannish brand of coercion and shaped its future for good and ill. Former Boston Globe investigative reporter Gerard O'Neill takes the reader through the entire journey from the famine ships arriving in Massachusetts Bay to the wresting of power away from the Brahmins of Beacon Hill to the Title I wars of attrition over housing to the rending of the city over busing to the Boston of today--which somehow through it all became a modern, revitalized city, albeit with a growing divide between the haves and have-nots. Sweeping in its history and intimate in its details, Rogues and Redeemers echoes all the great themes of The Power Broker and Common Ground and should take its place on that esteemed shelf as a classic, definitive epic of a city.

The Boston Irish

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Author : Thomas H. O'Connor
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995

The Boston Irish written by Thomas H. O'Connor and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with History categories.

"The best recounting of the contemporary scene that I have seen." -- New York Times Book Review

Irish Nationalists In Boston

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Author : Damien Murray
language : en
Publisher: CUA Press
Release Date : 2018-03-16

Irish Nationalists In Boston written by Damien Murray and has been published by CUA Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-16 with History categories.

During the first quarter of the twentieth century, the intersection of support for Irish freedom and the principles of Catholic social justice transformed Irish ethnicity in Boston. Prior to World War I, Boston’s middle-class Irish nationalist leaders sought a rapprochement with local Yankees. However, the combined impact of the Easter 1916 Rising and the postwar campaign to free Ireland from British rule drove a wedge between leaders of the city’s two main groups. Irish-American nationalists, emboldened by the visits of Irish leader Eamon de Valera, rejected both Yankees’ support of a postwar Anglo-American alliance and the latter groups’ portrayal of Irish nationalism as a form of Bolshevism. Instead, ably assisted by Catholic Church leaders such as Cardinal William O’Connell, Boston’s Irish nationalists portrayed an independent Ireland as the greatest bulwark against the spread of socialism. As the movement’s popularity spread locally, it attracted the support not only of Irish immigrants, but also that of native-born Americans of Irish descent, including businessman, left-leaning progressives, and veterans of the women’s suffrage movement. For a brief period after World War I, Irish-American nationalism in Boston became a vehicle for the promotion of wider democratic reform. Though the movement was unable to survive the disagreements surrounding the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921, it had been a source of ethnic unity that enabled Boston’s Irish community to negotiate the challenges of the postwar years including the anti-socialist Red Scare and the divisions caused by the Boston Police Strike in the fall of 1919. Furthermore, Boston’s Irish nationalists drew heavily on Catholic Church teachings such that Irish ethnicity came to be more clearly identified with the advocacy of both cultural pluralism and the rights of immigrant and working families in Boston and America.